Sally graduated from the Robert D. Clark Honors College at the University of Oregon in 2017 with a B.S. in Biology. Her undergraduate research, mentored by Dr. Patrick Phillips and Dr. Christine O’Connor, focused on the evolution of heat stress resistance phenotypes in the nematode Caenorhabditis remanei. She pursued her M.S. in Bioinformatics and Genomics at the University of Oregon as well, which landed her an internship at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai (ISMMS) working with Dr. Adam Margolin to evaluate the extent to which functional screens in cancer cell lines recapitulate established clinical outcomes. Currently, Sally is a second year PhD student in Biomedical Sciences at the ISMMS, mentored by Dr. Benjamin Hopkins. Her research focuses on developing computational methods to augment the lab’s functional genomics pipeline and on dissecting tumor-specific drug sensitivities in ovarian and breast cancers.